Maybe a little bit clearer, I believe we are alive, and heaving, and loving, and fighting, and most importantly never really truly ever lacking in the ferocity and sweat that make us human. We might be turned away in this culture from what connects us to the earth we’re born from, but we are still essentially human.

I did enjoy that article. I don’t mean we lack compassion or the ability to stop ourselves from doing harm to our brothers and sisters, especially since it so often runs counter to our own well-being and the good of our community. I don’t think doing violence means we lack humanity, but I guess from Dr de Waal’s explanation I could see our culture being pretty out of whack in terms of how bloody the atrocities we commit are when held up against the amount of love we give.